While actual travel to Mars and landing on its surface is still a far way off, a new program can reportedly take humans on a virtual tour of the Red Planet, right here from Earth itself - promising to be the next best thing to actually visiting it. Microsoft's HoloLens will reportedly give you a guided tour of various locations on Mars from the Kennedy Space Visitor Complex with its 'Destination: Mars' program until January 1, hence considerably shortening the 34 million mile travel for space enthusiasts. All you have to do is travel to Cape Canaveral in Florida, the location for the program.
The HoloLens program was created by OnSight, a scientific tool that was a collaboration between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Microsoft, which was first announced in January 2015, as a means to enable Mars exploration for researchers by giving a virtual 3D environment, viewed through Microsoft's AR headset, HoloLens. The equipment was used after that as the basis for the VR app Mars 2030 for Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard.
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